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    The document discusses several issues facing the Philippine educational system. It outlines that the system comprises 6 years of primary education and faces problems with quality of education, low education budgets, high dropout rates, brain drain, social divides, skills mismatches, lack of school facilities and teachers, and low teacher quality. Reasons provided for these issues include poverty, large class sizes, lack of funding, low salaries, and inadequate teacher training. The document effects of these issues include high repetition and dropout rates, unemployment, and declining education standards.

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    The document discusses several issues facing the Philippine educational system. It outlines that the system comprises 6 years of primary education and faces problems with quality of education, low education budgets, high dropout rates, brain drain, social divides, skills mismatches, lack of school facilities and teachers, and low teacher quality. Reasons provided for these issues include poverty, large class sizes, lack of funding, low salaries, and inadequate teacher training. The document effects of these issues include high repetition and dropout rates, unemployment, and declining education standards.

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    ISSUES IN PHILIPPINE EDUCATION

    The present Philippine Educational system firstly covers six


    years of compulsory education (from grades 1 to 6), divided
    informally into two levels - both composed of three years. The
    first level is known as the Primary Level and the second level is
    known as the Intermediate Level.
    Nationwide the Philippines faces several issues when it
    comes to the educational system.

    1. Quality of Education in the Philippines


    This is the first major issue that the Philippine government should
    resolve but somehow it is recently improving. The quality of Philippine
    education has declined a few years ago due to poor results from
    standard entrance tests conducted among elementary and secondary
    students, as well as tertiary levels. The results were way below the
    target mean score.

    Reasons: Effects:

     High drop-out rates  High number of repeaters


     Low passing grades  Incompetent
     Pack of particular language  Lack of socio-emotional skills
    skills  Unemployment
     Overcrowded classrooms
     Poor teaching performance
    2. Budget for Education
    The government was mandated by the Philippine Constitution to
    allocate the highest proportion of its budget to education. However,
    among the ASEAN countries, the Philippines still has one of the lowest
    budget allocations for education. This is due to some mainstream
    political issues and humungous problems that the government is facing
    especially corruption. This has an effects to Low students achievement.

    3. Drop-out Rate (Out-of-school Youth)


    The Philippines overall has 1.4 million children who are out-of-
    school, according to UNESCO's data. In 2012, the Department of
    Education showed data of a 6.38% drop-out rate in primary school and
    a 7.82% decline rate in secondary school. Subsequently, as more
    families become poorer, the number of students enrolled in public
    schools increases.

    Reasons: Effects:

     Poverty  Unemployment
     Discouraging environmemt  Low salary at work
     Academic inadequacy

    4. Brain Drain
    Brain Drain is a persistent problem evident in the educational system
    of the Philippines. The number of Overseas Filipino Workers who
    worked abroad at any time during the period April to September 2014
    was estimated at 2.3 million. This ongoing mass emigration
    subsequently inducts an unparalleled brain drain alongside grave
    economic implications.

    Reasons: Effects:

     Due to the Modern  Increased deterioration of


    Phenomenon of higher education
    Globalization  Inability to run universities to
    achieve development goals
     Lack of skilled workers to
    teach students at various
    academic levels

    5. Social Divide
    There exists a problematic and distinct social cleavage with regard to
    educational opportunities in the country. Most modern societies have
    encountered an equalizing effect on the subject of education. This
    aforementioned divide in the social system has made education
    become part of the institutional mechanism that creates a division
    between the poor and the rich.

    Reasons: Effects:
     Income and family status to  Differ in social treatment
    sustain  Declining of quality
     Lack/loss of job opportunities education to the poor
    compared to rich learners

    6. Mismatch
    There is a large mismatch between educational training and actual
    jobs. This stands to be a major issue at the tertiary level. According to
    Dean Salvador Belaro Jr., the Cornell-educated Congressman
    representing 1-Ang Edukasyon Party-list in the House of
    Representatives, the number of educated unemployed reaches around
    600,000 per year.

    Reasons: Effects:

     Communication  Viewed as inefficient


     Strategic Thinking  Signs of failed labour and
     Abstraction higher education market
     Research Skills  Unemployed and
    Underemployed

    7. Lack of Facilities and Teacher Shortage in Public


    Schools
    There are large-scale shortages of facilities across Philippine public
    schools. These include classrooms, teachers, desks and chairs,
    textbooks, and audio-video materials. The number of classrooms built
    from 2005 to the first half of the year 2010 has tripled. Furthermore,
    770 schools in Metro Manila, Cebu, and Davao were considered
    overcrowded.

    Reasons: Effects:

    Reasons for lack of facilities:  limits the ability of a student


    to achieve various learning
     lack of government support
    and extra curricula activity
     lack of funds
     it affects the teacher's job
     overcrowded
    satisfaction
     small area
     unable to concentrate
     low academic performance
    Teacher shortage:

     massive decline in
    undergraduate degrees in
    teacher education program
     low pay

    8. Quality and Proficiency of the Teacher


    According to a recent article (Gerochi, 2002), Filipino teachers lack
    proficiency in English, Science and Mathematics. Many said that these
    areas should have been trained comprehensively since as teachers,
    they should be able to teach the students with a more quality for future
    growth.

    Reasons: Effects:

     Lack of content knowledge  prevent children from


     Lack of classroom reaching their full potential
    management  influence the level of reading
     Lack of professionalism achievement among young
     Lack of commitment students
     students behaviour

    Retrieved on Semtember 7, 2022 from the following


    references:
    Education issues in the Philippines: The ongoing struggle. (2021, August 25).
    ChildHope Philippines. https://childhope.org.ph/education-issues-in-the-
    philippines/

    7 key issues and problems of Philippine education. (n.d.). ImbaLife.


    https://www.imbalife.com/7-key-issues-and-problems-of-philippine-
    education#:~:text=Studies%20and%20fact%2Dfinding%20commissions,the
    %20content%20of%20the%20curriculum%3B

    Issues regarding the educational system. (n.d.). K12 Academics | Your


    Nationwide Resource for Everything Education.
    https://www.k12academics.com/Education%20Worldwide/Education%20in
    %20the%20Philippines/issues-regarding-educational-system
    Presentors:
    Bohol, April Joy

    Cabucos, Hazel Jane

    Cañete, April Jean

    Destacamento, Angelica

    Diola, Quenie Martha

    Getaruelas, Janica

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